Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-09-08
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

| 'SniuB 10 'no cniei paying inuusIy AZ
Bsraga.
The new Muskegon Club House will
cost $4,000.
AT Adrian the latest baseball organi.
cation is called the Razzle- Dazzles.
Thomas Miller had SIO5 stolen from
his trudk at the Carter House, Jackson.
Jackson young men are making on
effort TO establish gymnasium in that city.
The bletter at Jackson police head
quarters was opened March 10, 1878, and
now contains 1,l24 names.
Allen p. May, the youngest son of ex-
Lieutenant Governor Charles S. May, has
been placed in an insane asylum.
There are now 245 paid up students at
the Agricultural College, and the list in
cludes seventy. seven new students.
A subscription paper is being circu-
lated at Belleville for the purpose of rails
ing money to bore a we'll that will supply
water in case Of fire. The town at present
is unprotected.
james r. Bell, who gives his residence
as Fulton, Ohio, has been arrested at
Jackson for stealing q horse of Charles
Farley, Of Napoleon. There were two of
the thieves, but one got away with one of
the horses. Deputy Kniffin is in pursuit.
Julian F. Mills, of Saranac, was ar
rested and fined for drunkenness, and his
sweetheart broke off her engagement with
him. He claims the arrest was unjust, and
has brought suit against the town for $2O,-
900 damages for the alienation of the girls
affections.
| "A. o. Jospling was convicted at Mar
| quette of killing deer out of season. The
Justice fnod him $50 and costs, which he
paid. This course was under the direction
Of. State. Game. .W,Mdep Smith, YRq. is de;
and the game laws freely enforced.
"A Jackson Justice Of the Peace owns
an intelligent spaniel that is cunning.
Whenever he is wandering abroad without
his muzzle and spies an officer he hies him.
self to the nearest alley and puts tin can
over his nose, keeping it there until the
policeman passes by and the danger is
over.
Darius Wilkinson, of South Bay City,
is in a peck of trouble. He claims that
while he was serving out his sentence in
the county Jail for being drunk, his folks
sold out his stock of meat in his market
and pocketed the receipts. He also grieves
over thirty eight caliber revolver which
his folks sold. He states that lie is one of
the private detectives employed to work up
the George Keppel murder case, and it is
necessary for him to got tho revolver Tor mis-
own protection.
Lansing has q more profound adDlira-
ton than ever for its telephone girls. A
man telephoned recently to Jackson for a
portion of his household goods, and tho
young ladies at the central learned that he
had spent several weeks in the city in o
vain search for work, and that his family,
living at North Lansing, was destitute.
They quickly made up q shake purse Of
81 or S5 among their friends, visited tn,
family that night, and left with it food,
several sunbeams of hope, and other neces-
saries of life.
As Mr.. Samuel Shippy of Newaygo
County was leading q bull, one day last
week, the animal suddenly attacked him,
tossed him with crushing force against the
barn, twenty-four feet away. Continuing
the attack, he gave his master an upper cut
that landed him upon q scaffold ten feet
| st,t tha asr A1 -
moved TO his house Mr.. Shippy was nearly
exhausted, there being q cash in his abdo-
men six inches long, from which his bowels
protruded, while the remainder OF his per-
son was a literal mass of bruises.
"A meeting of the stockholders of the
Mineral Range Railroad Company was
held at Hancock 10 consider the Ives matter
in connection with that road. The meeting
was held with closed doors, and the bust
ness is not yet concluded, but enough has
transpired to contradict the sensational re-
ports telegraphed over the country
concerning Ives connection with the
Mineral Range Road. The old Board of
Directors were re- elected with hardly a
change, and, after looking into the condi-
dition of the road, the sentiment of the
meeting was in favor of continuing its con-
troll by Henry S. Ives.
The Thayer Lumber Comp any, of
Muskegon, has shipped from their cast
yard by rail 1864, 1913 feet of lumber, and,
including their lower yards in that city, a
total shipment by rail of 19,500,0O0. This
lumber found q market in Ohio. Indiana,
and some in Pennsylvania. This is ex-
elusive of lumber shipped by boat TO Chi
cago and other points on the west shore Of
Like Michigan. This company also oper-
ates two saw-mills at Muskegon, the old
Bigolow mill having been purchased 10y
them, rebuilt and fitted over into band
saw mill. Their old mill is gang and two
circular mill, with a lath saw attach
ment. The two mills have a cutting
capacity of $50, 900 feet Of lumber daily.
Three hundred and fifty men are employed
by tho company in and about the mills and
lumber yards. Tho men work ten hours
for days work, and are paid once in two
weeks. The company's semi-monthly pay
roll foots up TO little over $5,iOO, or o
monthly pay roll Of $iO,SOO.
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The Executive Committee Of the Sol
diers and Sailors Association Of North